“ Anger is a noble infirmity; the generous failing of the just; the one degree that riseth above zeal, asserting the prerogative of virtue. ”
- Martin Tupper- Copy
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“ We must not forget that when radium was discovered no one knew that it would prove useful in hospitals. The work was one of pure science. And this is a proof that scientific work must not be considered from the point of view of the direct usefulness of it… ”
- Marie Curie- Copy
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“ Anger is a noble infirmity, the generous failing of the just, the one degree that riseth above zeal, asserting the prerogative of virtue. ”
- Martin Farquhar Tupper- Copy
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“ Age, that acquaints us with infirmities in ourselves, should make us tender in our reprehension of weakness elsewhere. ”
- Christian Nestell Bovee- Copy
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“ We are not so easily gilded by our most prominent weaknesses, as by those of which we are least aware. ”
- Arthur Helps- Copy
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“ It is in our faults and failings, not in our virtues, that we touch each other, and find sympathy. It is in our follies that we are one. ”
- Jerome K. Jerome- Copy
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“ It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are, the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others. ”
- Joseph Addison- Copy
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“ The organizations of men, like men themselves, seem subject to deafness, near-sightedness, lameness, and involuntary cruelty. We seem tragically unable to help one another, to understand one another. ”
- John Cheever- Copy
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“ It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are, the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others. - Joseph Addison. ”
- Joseph Addison- Copy
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“ Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended. ”
- Francois De La Rochefoucauld- Copy
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“ There is a close relationship between flowers and convicts. The fragility and delicacy of the former are of the same nature as the brutal insensitivity of the latter. ”
- Jean Genet- Copy
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“ I saw that all beings are fated to happiness: action is not life, but a way of wasting some force, an enervation. Morality is the weakness of the brain. ”
- Arthur Rimbaud- Copy
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“ It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others. ”
- Joseph Addison- Copy
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“ Only a kind person is able to judge another justly and to make allowances for his weaknesses. A kind eye, while recognizing defects, sees beyond them. ”
- Lawrence G. Lovasik- Copy
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“ Once we know our weaknesses, they cease to do us any harm. ”
- Georg C. Lichtenberg- Copy
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“ I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation and is but a reflection of human frailty. ”
- Albert Einstein- Copy
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“ Thou seest I have more flesh than another man, and therefore more frailty. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ The bow cannot always stand bent, nor can human frailty subsist without some lawful recreation. ”
- Miguel de Cervantes- Copy
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“ I've known people who thought that reaching their potential would come from shoring up their weaknesses. But do you know what happens when you spend all your time working on your weaknesses and never developing your strengths? If you work really hard, you might claw your way all the way to mediocrity! But you'll never get beyond it. ”
- JOHN C. MAXWELL- Copy
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“ I don't know where it's going to lead,... But I think a new element of fragility and vulnerability has been put back into a region where we felt we were getting on top of it, and we're watching it very closely. ”
- Colin Powell- Copy
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“ The wise man has his follies, no less than the fool; but it has been said that herein lies the difference — the follies of the fool are known to the world, but hidden from himself; the follies of the wise are known to himself, but hidden from the world. ”
- Charles Caleb Colton- Copy
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“ The wise man has his foibles, as well as the fool. But the difference between them is, that the foibles of the one are known to himself and concealed from the world; and the foibles of the other are known to the world and concealed from himself. ”
- John Mason- Copy
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“ Ninety per cent of the world's woe comes from people not knowing themselves, their abilities, their frailties, and even their real virtues. Most of us go almost all the way through life as complete strangers to ourselves — so how can we know anyone else? ”
- Sidney J. Harris- Copy
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“ Mankind's common instinct for reality has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism. In heroism, we feel, life's supreme mystery is hidden. We tolerate no one who has no capacity whatever for it in any direction. On the other hand, no matter what a man's frailties otherwise may be, if he be willing to risk death, and still more if he suffer it heroically, in the service he has chosen, the fact consecrates him forever. ”
- William James- Copy
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“ False greatness is unsociable and remote: conscious of its own frailty, it hides, or at least averts its face, and reveals itself only enough to create an illusion and not be recognized as the meanness that it really is. True greatness is free, kind, familiar and popular; it lets itself be touched and handled, it loses nothing by being seen at close quarters; the better one knows it, the more one admires it. ”
- Jean de la Bruyere- Copy
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